Gustavo AguilarDreaming with SerpentsAcoustic Levitation (1001)

Aguilar's improvising is percussion-driven, sometimes centering
on a shifting mood reliant on tone-producing percussion instruments, used
as support for wordless vocals, or the aggressively brassy rantings of Smith.
The music plays to the gut rather than the head, which give it something
in common with early swing. But the listener had better like whacking on
the skins since lengthy portions of the disc are drum solos of one sort
or another. Don't know if Aguilar and company would appreciate their music
being called primitive, but from this writer's perspective, the group's
albums and previous work with dance companies feed something more visceral
than what hard-bop reaches.